Bill Text: CA AB910 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Infrastructure financing districts: facilities and

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-27 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB910 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB910-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 910	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 31, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torres

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 53395.3 of the Government Code, relating
to local planning.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

F   AB 910, as amended, Torres. Infrastructure financing districts:
facilities and projects.
   Existing law authorizes counties and cities to form infrastructure
financing districts, in accordance with a prescribed procedure, and
requires that a district finance only public capital facilities of
communitywide significance, as specified.
   This bill would, in addition to public capital facilities, require
a district to finance affordable housing facilities and economic
development projects.  The bill would provide that with respect
to a district proposing to implement a specified plan, an election
would not be required to form a district, adopt an infrastructure
financing plan, or issue bonds pursuant to existing law. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
F  SECTION 1.  Section 53395.3 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   53395.3.  (a) (1) A district may finance all of the following:
   (A) The purchase, construction, expansion, improvement, seismic
retrofit, or rehabilitation of any real or other tangible property
with an estimated useful life of 15 years or longer that satisfies
the requirements of subdivision (b).
   (B) The planning and design work that is directly related to the
purchase, construction, expansion, or rehabilitation of that
property.
   (C) The costs described in Sections 53395.5, and 53396.5.
   (2) A district may finance only the purchase of facilities for
which construction has been completed, as determined by the
legislative body. The facilities need not be physically located
within the boundaries of the district. A district may not finance
routine maintenance, repair work, or the costs of ongoing operation
or providing services of any kind.
   (b) The district shall finance only affordable housing facilities,
economic development projects,  and   or 
public capital facilities of communitywide significance, that provide
significant benefits to an area larger than the area of the
district, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Highways, interchanges, ramps and bridges, arterial streets,
parking facilities, and transit facilities.
   (2) Sewage treatment and water reclamation plants and interceptor
pipes.
   (3) Facilities for the collection and treatment of water for urban
Fuses.   (4) Flood control levees and dams, retention basins, and drainage
channels.
   (5) Child care facilities.
   (6) Libraries.
   (7) Parks, recreational facilities, and open space.
   (8) Facilities for the transfer and disposal of solid waste,
including transfer stations and vehicles.
   (c) Any district that constructs dwelling units shall set aside
not less than 20 percent of those units to increase and improve the
community's supply of low- and moderate-income housing available at
an affordable housing cost, as defined by Section 50052.5 of the
Health and Safety Code, to persons and families of low- and
moderate-income, as defined in Section 50093 of the Health and Safety
FCode.    (d) With respect to a district proposing to implement an
affordable housing or economic development plan or a plan adopted
pursuant to Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 65460) of Chapter 3
of Division 1 of Title 7, an election shall not be required to form a
district, adopt an infrastructure financing plan, or issue bonds
pursuant to this chapter. All other provisions of this chapter shall
otherwise apply to the formation of a district and the adoption of an
infrastructure financing plan.